Marquee EDC Week 2026

Marquee Nightclub and Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas occupy the same property address on the Las Vegas Strip — giving Marquee a structural advantage during EDC Week that no other single nightclub name replicates at the same address. The nightclub occupies the lower level of the venue complex, opening at 10:30 PM with a capacity approaching 5,000 guests. The dayclub operates on the rooftop above with Strip views, running 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM throughout the pool season.

This dual structure means an EDC Week visitor whose musical priorities span the full daytime-to-nighttime circuit can build an entire day around Marquee without taking a rideshare. Thursday DayTrip tech house at the pool, dinner at Wicked Spoon or STK inside The Cosmopolitan, NOTD at the nightclub — all from a single mid-Strip address. On EDC festival days, the same property serves as the base for guests who prefer quality club programming over the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and the 11:00 AM to 10:30 PM gap gives festival-goers returning from the Speedway time to rest before the nightclub opens.

Marquee opened in 2010 as part of The Cosmopolitan's original opening, and in the years since has consistently positioned itself as the Strip's tech house and progressive house specialist — the venue where DJs like Fisher, Chris Lake, John Summit, and Charlotte de Witte hold residencies alongside the broader open-format programming that makes a large Las Vegas nightclub economically viable. The Tao Group Hospitality brand operates Marquee alongside Tao Nightclub, Beauty and Essex, and multiple other Strip properties.

During EDC Week, Marquee's tech house reputation is a deliberate competitive positioning. Where Hakkasan at MGM Grand offers multi-room genre breadth across five levels, and XS at Wynn delivers EDM spectacle with an outdoor pool section, Marquee runs a more focused program: tech house and underground-leaning electronic music at the dayclub, open-format and EDM headliners at the nightclub. For EDC attendees whose musical priorities are specific, this positioning makes Marquee the correct choice on multiple nights.

Thursday May 14 is the most underground-focused day of Marquee's EDC Week programming and the most accessible entry point into the full week. The DayTrip pool party at Marquee Dayclub brings Eli Brown, Danny Avila, and Rebuke — three DJs whose profiles sit firmly in the underground tech house space that Beatport charts rather than the mainstream EDM sphere that dominates festival marketing.

DayTrip is a touring event series and collective that has built a following among the tech house audience by consistently delivering credible multi-artist lineups with a daytime, outdoor format. The DayTrip format presents a continuous DJ flow across the event window rather than traditional back-to-back slots with clear handoffs — a structure that fits well with the poolside layout of Marquee Dayclub, where the Strip views and rooftop setting emphasize the audio programming over production spectacle.

Eli Brown has built his reputation on Relief Records, Repopulate Mars, and Elrow Music — three labels that define the current tech house canon. Danny Avila's backstory as the youngest-ever Las Vegas residency holder (first booked at age 12 after being discovered by Tiestö) adds narrative weight to his Thursday appearance. Rebuke contributes a UK underground tech house perspective that rounds out a genuinely specialist lineup.

The nightclub Thursday brings Discip and Silva Bumpa in a back-to-back set — maintaining the tech house tone from the dayclub into the nightclub environment. Thursday is the most genuine guest list night of the full EDC Week nightclub schedule for Marquee. Demand is lower than EDC festival weekend nights, women typically enter free on guest list, and the crowd composition — pre-festival enthusiasts and tech house specialists — is distinctly different from the post-Speedway peak crowds of Saturday and Sunday.

Friday May 15 is the evening before EDC Las Vegas 2026 opens at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Saturday May 16, and Marquee offers two distinct programming options across dayclub and nightclub for guests who want Strip club quality on the pre-festival night. The dayclub brings Lost Frequencies for the Beatport Fridays EDC Week installment. The nightclub brings NOTD at 10:30 PM.

Lost Frequencies — Belgian producer Felix De Laet — is one of the most commercially successful melodic house artists of the past decade. His breakout record Are You With Me reached number one in Belgium, the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia after its 2014 release. Follow-ups including Reality, Beautiful Life, and Melody create a catalog of feel-good, euphoric dance music that works with the same effectiveness across radio, festival stages, and pool party formats. His Friday afternoon set at Marquee Dayclub on the first day of EDC positions him as the sonic counterpart to the harder material running at the festival's underground stages.

At night, NOTD presents a different kind of crossover: melodic electronic music with strong pop songwriting. The Swedish duo of Samuel Brandt and Tobias Danielsson built their profile through Been Here All Night, I Wanna Know, and So Close — records that place them at the intersection of pure dance music and radio-accessible pop. Friday at Marquee Nightclub with NOTD draws guests who want a nightclub-scale electronic experience on EDC Night 1, and their 3-billion-plus combined stream count means the crowd familiarity with their catalog is reliable.

Beatport Fridays is a 16-week residency running every Friday from May 1 through September 4 at Marquee Dayclub — a partnership between Marquee and Beatport, the London-based electronic music download platform that functions as the industry's de facto chart authority and digital record store for house, techno, trance, and electronic dance music. The partnership is significant because it connects Marquee's booking decisions directly to the platform that defines what underground and specialist electronic music audiences use as a quality signal.

For the electronic music fan who uses Beatport to discover new releases, check genre-specific chart positions, and follow label catalogs — the Beatport Fridays branding is a credibility signal that the booking has been made with genuine electronic music taste rather than pure commercial accessibility. Artists featured in the series represent the range of Beatport's genre coverage: melodic house figures like Lost Frequencies, tech house specialists, house music DJ-producers, and emerging acts featured in Beatport's editorial programming.

The residency also incorporates a DJ competition element: aspiring producers can submit mixes to compete for an opening slot in front of a featured headliner. This component creates a direct pipeline from Beatport's producer ecosystem — the platform hosts millions of tracks from independent and label-signed artists — to a major Las Vegas pool party stage. For emerging DJs, the competition is one of the few pathways from producing music independently to performing in front of a several-thousand-person Las Vegas crowd.

During EDC Week, Beatport Fridays with Lost Frequencies on May 15 is the series' most prominent installment of the summer. The convergence of the festival audience's specialist electronic music knowledge with Lost Frequencies' catalog creates the ideal conditions for the residency's programming philosophy: a credible booking that serves the EDC crowd's taste while remaining accessible enough to draw the wider Las Vegas pool party audience.

Saturday May 16 is the second day of EDC Las Vegas and the highest-attendance day of the festival weekend. Marquee runs Timmy Trumpet at the dayclub and DJ Vice at the nightclub.

Timmy Trumpet's distinction as a performer is literal: he plays a live trumpet during his DJ sets, creating a hybrid of instrumental live music and EDM production that is genuinely unique on the Las Vegas pool party circuit. Where most dayclubs present a DJ behind decks with production effects as the visual element, Timmy Trumpet adds a live brass instrument that changes the sonic character of his sets in real time. His big-room EDM style — high-energy, melodic, festival-calibrated — works well under daylight at the Marquee Dayclub rooftop, where the Strip views and outdoor setting amplify the performance energy. Australian by origin, Trumpet holds active residencies at Marquee, OMNIA, Hakkasan, and Tao Beach — a spread that reflects his cross-venue appeal to the mainstream Las Vegas pool party audience.

At night, DJ Vice brings the open-format precision that has made him one of the Strip's most consistently booked performers. A Creative Artists Agency signee with active residencies across XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, LIV at Fontainebleau, Jewel, and Marquee, Vice reads rooms with the intelligence that comes from sustained work across multiple venue formats and crowd types. His sets blend hip-hop, EDM, and pop at the right proportion for each room — a skill that is particularly valuable on EDC Saturday, when the crowd composition includes dedicated festival attendees, group travelers on first-time Las Vegas trips, and the post-Speedway crowd arriving from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway after midnight. EDC Saturday at Marquee Nightclub operates at full capacity, and Vice's track record in high-volume Strip environments makes him the correct booking for the highest-demand night of the week.

Sunday May 17 is the final day of the EDC Las Vegas festival and the closing day of Marquee's EDC Week program. The dayclub hosts the Insomniac Records Pool Party. The nightclub closes the festival weekend with DJ Pauly D.

The Insomniac Records Pool Party is the EDC Week event with the tightest conceptual connection to the festival itself. Insomniac Events — the company that produces EDC Las Vegas — operates Insomniac Records as a label imprint releasing house and electronic music by artists in the Insomniac ecosystem. Bringing OMNOM, CID, and Jackie Hollander to Marquee Dayclub on Sunday May 17 means the festival's own label is programming its closing day at one of its primary venue partners.

CID — New York-based DJ Ramsay Ramírez — has built one of the most consistent US tech house profiles in the streaming era through releases on Dim Mak, Insomniac Records, and HARD Music, and residencies at Marquee, XS, OMNIA, and international venues. OMNOM is a Brooklyn-based producer and DJ with a growing US profile in the tech and deep house space. Jackie Hollander represents the emerging generation of Insomniac Records artists whose club exposure is building through the label's venue partnerships. The three-artist Insomniac Records lineup runs as a connected session from 11:00 AM through closing — a proper house and tech house program for the EDC crowd's closing day.

At night, DJ Pauly D closes the festival weekend at Marquee Nightclub. Paul DelVecchio Jr.'s Las Vegas career is one of the longest and most venue-spanning on the Strip — active residencies at Marquee, OMNIA, Hakkasan, Palm Tree Beach Club, and Tao Beach make him the most widely booked DJ name in Las Vegas. His open-format sets combine EDM, hip-hop, and chart pop for the broadest possible nightclub audience, and his Sunday slot is calibrated for the emotional closing night of the EDC festival weekend — when the crowd is simultaneously celebrating the festival's end and preparing for their departure from Las Vegas.

Marquee Nightclub and Marquee Dayclub operate independent guest list programs, and understanding the differences is the key variable in EDC Week entry planning. The general principle: the dayclub is more accessible on guest list than the nightclub across most nights, but Friday and Sunday dayclub events during EDC festival days require the same advance planning as the nightclub.

Nightclub Guest List: Thursday Discip/Silva Bumpa is the best nightclub guest list night — women typically free, men at reduced cover ($20 to $40). Friday NOTD maintains reasonable guest list availability; women free, men $30 to $50, closes by midnight. Saturday DJ Vice and Sunday DJ Pauly D are the highest-demand nights — guest list availability is limited and covers are higher. On EDC festival weekend nights, arrive by 11:00 PM and ensure you have registered in advance. Walk-up on EDC Saturday without a table reservation or advance ticket is not a viable strategy.

Dayclub Guest List: Thursday DayTrip is the most accessible dayclub day — arriving at noon gives comfortable access, and guest list closes around 2:00 to 3:00 PM. Saturday Timmy Trumpet is moderately accessible on guest list. Friday Lost Frequencies and Sunday Insomniac Records Pool Party are the highest-demand dayclub events and require advance registration with early arrival on the day. Women on guest list enter free across most dayclub events; men pay $30 to $50 depending on the day.

For the full EDC Week guest list and no-cover strategy across all major Strip venues, see the EDC Week free guest list guide. For the complete overview of nightclub programming across all venues, the EDC Week nightclub events guide covers every venue by night.

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegasis the optimal base for guests whose EDC Week itinerary prioritizes Marquee. Staying on property eliminates all rideshare logistics for both the dayclub and the nightclub — walk from your room to either venue in minutes. The Cosmopolitan's room inventory spans the mid-luxury tier with options from hotel rooms to multi-room suites, and its mid-Strip location places it within easy range of major EDC Week venues.

For guests staying elsewhere on the mid-Strip, Aria and Bellagio are a five to seven minute rideshare from The Cosmopolitan. Guests at Caesars Palace, where OMNIA Nightclub and the new OMNIA Dayclub are located, may prefer splitting their EDC Week between OMNIA and Marquee depending on their schedule.

The EDC Week hotels guide covers the full hotel strategy for EDC Week, including proximity to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway shuttle corridors, Strip nightclub access, and dayclub convenience for the full EDC Week program.

EDC Las Vegas 2026runs May 15–17 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for its 30th anniversary edition. EDC Week 2026 programming spans Strip venues from Wednesday May 13 through Monday May 18. Marquee's four-night nightclub and four-day dayclub programs cover the full core EDC Week window.

What distinguishes Marquee from competing EDC Week venues is the combination of dual-venue access at a single address, the Beatport Fridays residency's credibility signal, and the Insomniac Records Pool Party connection to the festival brand itself. For the EDC attendee whose musical priorities lean toward tech house and melodic electronic at the dayclub, and who wants accessible crowd-friendly programming at the nightclub — Marquee's EDC Week schedule is a well-structured combination on the Strip.

For afterparty coverage following the EDC festival night program, see the EDC afterparties 2026 guide. For the complete pool party overview, the EDC pool parties 2026 guide covers every dayclub running EDC Week programming.